Portrait of the Goldsmith Louis Roupert
Louis Cossin, French, 1627 - 1704
after Pierre Rabon, French, 1619 - 1684
1668
Engraving on paper
Sheet: 5 7/8 × 8 7/16 in. (14.9 × 21.4 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Barbara Dau '78 Fund for European Art
2021.59
Geography
Place Made: France, Europe
Period
1600-1800
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Inscribed, in plate, lower right: Louis Roupert Mtre [tre in superscript] Orfeure AMetz / P Rabon pinxit / Ludovicus Cossius sculp. / 1668; Watermark, center: H
Label
Louis Roupert was best known for his ornamental designs in metalwork. In this portrait, he holds a sheet with a scrolling acanthus design. On the table to the right, acanthus leaves fill a vase, while the pliers, shears, files, needles, and other engraving tools that mark Roupert’s trade are scattered about. This print was the title page to a set of nine engravings after designs by Roupert and is composed to give the goldsmith an air of authority, introducing him as a creative designer ahead of the nine engravings of his invention.
From the 2024 exhibition Living with Sculpture: Presence and Power in Europe, 1400–1750, curated by Elizabeth Rice Mattison, Andrew W. Mellon Curator of Academic Programming and Curator of European Art, and Ashley B. Offill, Curator of Collections
Course History
Music 42.01, Early Classical Music, Richard Beaudoin, Fall 2023
Studio Art 27.01, Studio Art 28.01, Studio Art 74.01, Printmaking I, II, III, Jen Caine, Winter 2024
History 42.01, Women's Gender, and Sexuality Studies 22.01, Gender & European Society, Patrick Meehan, Spring 2024
History 96.39, Saints and Relics, Cecilia Gaposchkin, Spring 2024
Italian 1.01, Introductory Italian I, Noemi Perego, Spring 2024
Italian 11.01, Intensive Italian, Floriana Ciniglia, Spring 2024
Italian 2.01, Introductory Italian II, Floriana Ciniglia, Spring 2024
Italian 3.01, Introductory Italian III, Tania Convertini, Spring 2024
Italian 3.02, Introductory Italian III, Giorgio Alberti, Spring 2024
Exhibition History
Living with Sculpture: Presence and Power in Europe, 1400–1750, Citrin Family Gallery and Engles Family Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, March 23, 2024–March 22, 2025.
Provenance
Susan Schulman Printseller, New York, New York; sold to Katherine W. Hart, 2005; sold to the present collection, 2021
Catalogue Raisonne
Fuhring 1824; IFF 154
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